Linguistics - Language Shift

Tuesday 18 Novermber, 2003

Registration

Registration is $10 for full-time students, $20 for UWA staff and $30 for others. This covers morning and afternoon teas and a light lunch.

The registration form can be downloaded here in rtf format or pdf format.

Please register as soon as possible so that we can finalise numbers in advance for catering purposes.

Program


All sessions will be held in Geography Lecture Theatre 1.
Click here for abstracts.


9:20	Welcome Professor Anne Pauwels

9:30	Emergent varieties in language shift: revisiting variation, purism, and the role of the specialist. Margaret Florey Monash

10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Language Ecology and Language Shift: integrating macro- and micro-sociolinguistics. Patrick McConvell Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies

12:00	Exploring new avenues for language maintenance in immigrant Australia. Anne Pauwels UWA

12:30	Lunch

1:30	Understanding the sociocultural significance of languages in multilingual settings: the case of language shift in Northern Cape York Peninsula. Helen Harper Charles Darwin University

2:00	Attitudes of East Javanese to language socialisation: A step toward understanding their linguistic identity. Suharsono UWA

2:30	Codeswitching as an indicator of Language Shift? Evidence from Borneo. James McLellan Curtin University of Technology

3:00	Afternoon Tea

3:30	East Timor: Language policy and language planning. [student paper] Antoinette Schapper UWA

4:00	Finish

UWA Language Science Group 2003